Have you ever wonder if you can use notepad as a logging tools? By logging I mean you can put what ever notes/text and it will automatically set the date and time for you in each session. Believe it or not, our old, plain, and simple default windows notepad can do that.
While I found out this trick is not new but still worth sharing. I bet only 1% or even less people know about that. I have been using computer since Windows 3.1 and I only know this TODAY!
Enough talk crap, here is the step how to make your nearly useless windows notepad a bit useful.
- Open a new blank copy of Windows Notepad. Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Notepad.
- Type .LOG in the first line. Do exactly as that including CAPS.
- Save what have you done in previous step, give it what ever name you want.
- Now open back that file with Notepad and magically time & date automatically inserted into the last line you left.
- Type something below that time & date and save & close it again.
- Open back with Notepad and another latest date & time automatically inserted to the last line.
Cool huh? Here is original issue discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base, How to Use Notepad to Create a Log File.
Example case study
Interesting fact :
You can save that text into whatever extension you want, not only limited to *.txt. You can also save it as .ini, .log, .msc, .dat, .avi or WITHOUT extension at ALL. What the most important is, to open that file only and only with Notepad. No other text processor can understand that .LOG, I have tried it.
Until then. CYA.
If you read my previous post GNU Wget, The Ultimate Command-Line Download Tool, you might be noticed that I cant use the word “wget” I cant even use that word here or anywhere. I guess this is just some nasty WordPress bug.
As my previous post it took me more than 2 hours scratching head wondering what wrong that I can’t post to my WordPress powered blog. At first I thought it was Post2Blog, my new blogging tool (I just start using Post2Blog in the past few days) that cause that error, I get error 404 every times I mentioned the word “wget”. Then, I switch to my other blogging tools, BlogDesk (this is my long time favorite blogging tool before I found Post2Blog), The Journal (this is not “pure” blogging tool hence it is named the journal LOL), Ecto and last but not least WordPress build-in web-based write post function. All of them give error 404 page not found!, I repeat ALL OF THEM, even the web-based will redirect me to default WordPress error 404 handling page LOL. So, I guess this might be serious problem.
Here is some screen shot taken.
Error from BlogDesk
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Recently, I have to uninstall 2 programs that I don’t need anymore, IoIsland’s Placesbar Tweaker and Eusing Software’s Fast Folder Access. I just use normal Windows Add or Remove program but interestingly it give me error Could not open INSTALL.LOG file. Thats weird, so tried to uninstall using start menu but it still give me the same error.
I guess maybe the installation was corrupted or the file install.log was missing or it got read only attribute so I open the program install location in program files, the file was there and it is not read only. The file install.log also not empty in-case it lost some installation info. Then I tried to run UNWISE.EXE which is the uninstaller of Wise Installer but still got the same error. I even re-install the program but still not success… WTF Wise Installer.
After fiddle around the files for a while I found out the solution. Here is how you do it without having to manually remove all the files and registry entry.
- Navigate to program’s installation folder
- Cut or move the INSTALL.LOG to somewhere else. eg: desktop or my documents. Reminder: Move the file, not copy.
- Run the uninstaller and it will ask you to locate the INSTALL.LOG file.
- Select the file you move earlier and voila the crap uninstalled!
Easy right? If you still have problem with it just leave comment below and I’ll try to answer it 
Ok, here is the browser test for Ajax Sync Call Freeze Test run by Maxthon developer team.
I run the test with all major browser Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and Maxthon (this is not major I guess). The result quite surprising, especially for Firefox the so called greatest browser. Ok, here is the summary of the test result.
1) Maxthon
Browser Version : 2.0.2.2165 Unicode
Result: Pass
2) Firefox
Browser version: 2.0.0.4
Result: Failed - Browser freeze/hang for quite a while
3) Opera
Browser version: 9.21 Build 8776
Result: Pass
4) Internet Explorer
Browser version: 7.0.5730.11
Result: Failed - Freeze for quite a while
My conclusion:
Firefox result failed this pass really surprising me, I think the developer should be aware of something like this furthermore they are open source group that known to be quick responsive to surround. As for Internet Explorer I already guess that it won’t pass. Opera also surprising me, this mean they really serious about their browser and for Maxthon I’m damn sure it will pass even though I’m not using latest version, latest version as for this writing is RC4. Again, why not test your favorite browser against the test, see it will make it or not and would love to hear the result from you in the comment below.
Edit - 16 July 2007
I was mistaken, Firefox and Internet Explorer didn’t freeze completely. They just freeze for some time and complete all the call in the end. Still, I think that is not good because I just test with one tab opened. Imagine if you have 10 or more tab opened, the result would be worse.
